In every family, someone ends up with “the stuff.” It is the goal of The Family Curator to inspire, enlighten, and encourage other family curators in their efforts to preserve and share their own family treasures.

The website DearPhotograph.com started it all. Return to the scene of an old photograph and take the picture again -- but superimposing the original image in place. It takes a bit of trial and error to get it just right, but the results are a kind of photographic time machine.

This weekend, Mr. Curator and I returned to Santa Barbara to revisit old haunts. First stop was noon Mass at the church where we were married.